The Footprint Blog

Create your own bike lane, for real

This past winter, we (meaning I) wrote about LightLane, a concept design for a lighting system that paints a virtual path around your bike at night to encourage cars to keep a safe distance. The idea caught the internet’s imagination, so much so that it’s soon going to be a real product:

The video is kind of cool, and I tend to think something like this actually could work. If I were a driver, I’d take the hint. More info at the LightLane web site.